I go about asking questions the wrong way?!
A scientist starts with a puzzle that is already built, and by observation, handling, and expirimentation takes it apart, puts it together, discovers how it works, makes use of it, and passes his knowledge down to generations. He also encounters issues of objectivity and subjectivity as another here has noted.
In short, a scientist uses the INTELLIGENCE he was DESIGNED with to ask questions, make observations, and arrive at some very INTELLIGENT conclusions about the puzzle. For a scientist INTELLIGENT DESIGN is a GIVEN, because it is the universe in which, and with which, he operates. The rest is gravy.
Evolutionists may take 150 years and tens of thousands of scientists to discover the obvious, but it is only because THEY have the bass ackwards reasoning, not IDers.
The rest of your post confirms the truth of this statement. The puzzle that needs to be assembled is not the world itself, but a useful explanation or description of how it works. It is the description that is the puzzle, not the object of the description.
So yes, you do ask the wrong questions.